Ralf G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ralf G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919 to a Jewish father and Christian mother. He recounts his mother's death in 1921; his father's remarriage to a Christian; attending a Catholic school and gymnasium; his father withdrawing them from the Jewish community in 1932 to avoid communal taxes; his father's business failure in 1938 due to anti-Jewish measures; having to move several times due to anti-Jewish neighbors; draft into the German military in 1939; volunteering for the front; assignment to Zweibru?cken on the French front, then transfer to Poland; never revealing his father was Jewish; release from the military in March 1941 when his parentage was discovered; returning to Berlin; working in a mattress business; assignment to forced labor for Organisation Todt in Zerbst as a half-Jew in October 1944; several privileged positions, including supervising nine hundred prisoners; several visits to his parents in Berlin; dissolution of the camp after an Allied bombing; delay in meeting his supervisor due to Allied bombings; arrest in Zeithain; transfer to Riesa; release; driving for the military in Zwiesel; surrendering to United States troops in Linz; brief placement in an Allied POW camp in Regensburg; returning to Berlin; reunion with his parents; and establishing his business. Mr. G. notes he knew nothing of atrocities and death camps until after the war, and lives his life as a non-Jew. He shows photographs and documents.

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